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Gale Business: DemographicsNow
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Geographic-based demographic information perfect for business and marketing plans, including Consumer Expenditure, Simmons and Mosaic reports.
This resource is being discontinued by the vendor on March 31, 2025.
Gale Business: Insights
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Research and analyze companies, industries, and economies around the world. Featuring robust data sets, industry essays, Plunkett reports, company histories, case studies, market share reports, and SWOT reports.
Gale Courses
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Offers a wide range of highly interactive, instructor led courses that you can take entirely online. Learn a new hobby, improve your job skills, or your life skills. As a library card holder in good standing, you are entitled to these courses at no cost. Courses run for six weeks, and new sessions begin every month.
Gale Directory Library
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Directories include: Ward’s Business Directory, the Encyclopedia of Associations, the Consultants and Consulting Organizations Directory, the Encyclopedia of Business Information Sources, and the Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media.
Gale eBooks
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Contains the full text of hundreds of reference books on a wide variety of subjects, including history, business, medicine, science and humanities. Includes tables of content, indexes and illustrations.
Gale General OneFile
Use at Home? Yes
Description: General interest articles on current events, science, entertainment, the arts, etc.
Gale Health and Wellness
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Articles on medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, alcohol and drug abuse and fitness.
Gale Legal Forms
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Illinois Legal Forms includes thousands of business, personal, litigation and federal forms.
Gale Literature Resource Center
Use at Home? Yes
Description: search across more than 165,000 entries, including biographies, overviews, and full-text literary criticism—past and present.
Gale Online Learning Portal
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Determine which online learning platform is right for you based on your goals, whether it’s test prep, career growth, or learning a new skill. Contains links to Gale Courses, Peterson’s Test & Career Prep, and Udemy
Guidestar by Candid
Use at Home? No
Description: Comprehensive source of nonprofit information to easily find local nonprofits to donate, work, or volunteer at, and connect those in need to resources they rely on, such as food banks or shelters